A nice productivity tip: work backwards
From the Zurb blog:
Scribbling down a lofty goal on the top of your task list that says build an awesome app that translates any language into Klingon is a "sure way to make sure it never gets done," says Inc. By working backwards, says the article, you can slice the work up into smaller, more manageable bits. That’s something we already do as part of our design process. We call it timeboxing, which forces us to limit what we’re doing by how much time we actually have.
The same theory applies to writing and I’ve talked about it before, only I called it chunking. If your goal is to ‘write a novel’, you’re asking for trouble. It’s such a huge task that it’s impossible to visualise what it might look and feel like to complete. Instead, break the larger task into more imaginable, practical pieces and take them on one at a time.
